How big is a division?

[zute]

I apologize for another lame-ass question, but in the story I'm writing now this actually has relevance. It's the difference between paranoia and reasonable concern.

When you rescue Riordan he tells you that Loghain had turned away 200 Grey Wardens and two dozen divisions of cavalry.  When I looked up division sizes I got utterly enormous numbers like 10,000 for single light infantry division, in the modern army. I'm sure that must be vastly larger than in middle ages terms.

Does anyone have a feel for how many actually people that would be? 

My thanks!

Zute

Comments

[klarabella]

See this just doesn't seem consistent with what we actually see in the game. I mean, there's tons of talk from a lot of different people about the importance of bloodlines. No one talks about "the biggest asskicker gets to make the decisions."
Hehe, that's why I said it's could be a really old tradition, one that goes beyond Calenhad's legend all the way back to the barbarian warlords. A tradition that no one would consider if it weren't desperate times.

In my mind Alfstanna says "It shall be fought according to ancient tradition...". I think, it's a nice addition to the lore. :D

Of course, YMMV.